Questions tagged [ripemd160]

In Pay-To-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH), the RIPEMD160 hash function is used to hash the public key of the recipient in the locking script.
On the contrary, Pay-To-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH) uses ...

Someone robbed me at gunpoint and took my laptop. The laptop contained an encrypted hardrive with a wallet.dat file. Both the hardrive and wallet.dat had at best weak passphrases for the encryption. I ...

The Base58 Encoding of a public key hash outputs: "A set of 58 alphanumeric symbols consisting of easily distinguished uppercase and lowercase letters (0OIl are not used)"
This set is a fixed string ...

Bitcoin uses both SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 hashes. Most often a double-round SHA-256 is used, but for address generating, RIPEMD-160 is used because it generates a shorter hash value. RIPEMD-160 has a ...